Amy L. Buffington

The Pocono Mountain School District's Special Education Plan outlines strategies to enhance educational services and improve outcomes for students with disabilities. The plan addresses key areas such as ensuring timely evaluations, optimizing assessment participation and proficiency, and fostering inclusive educational environments. It prioritizes parent involvement, effective post-school transition planning, positive behavior supports including TACT2 and MTSS frameworks, and robust interagency collaboration. A significant component involves ongoing special education personnel development in areas like Autism support, behavioral strategies, and literacy, with a continuous focus on maintaining least restrictive environments and ensuring compliance with all regulations.

This document presents the preliminary general fund budget for the Pocono Mountain School District for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. It outlines key budget factors influencing revenues and expenditures, including local, state, and federal funding, contractual obligations, health care, special education, technology, safety, and facilities costs. The plan details projected revenues and expenditures by category and function, provides analysis of tax impacts, and projects fund balances, highlighting considerations for fiscal responsibility and resource allocation.

This document outlines the Pocono Mountain School District's academic calendar for the 2025-2026 school year. It details important dates including holidays, teacher in-service days, student early dismissals, tentative marking period endings, and parent-teacher conference schedules. The calendar also specifies snow make-up days and notes that it is subject to revisions due to cancellations or district closures.

The CSI School Plan for Pocono Mountain East High School focuses on improving student attendance and achievement in ELA and mathematics through the implementation of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). The plan involves analyzing data to identify students needing support, implementing tiered interventions, and providing professional development for staff. Key goals include increasing regular student attendance to 84% and achieving a 15% increase in the overall average composite score on the Math and ELA Firefly benchmark assessments.

The CSI School Plan for Pocono Mountain West Junior High School focuses on improving the MTSS framework to support at-risk students, increase regular school attendance, and enhance math and ELA instruction using student assessment data. Key goals include ensuring that at least 80% of students attend 90% of the school year by 2026 and increasing the average Firefly Math and ELA Benchmark scores by at least 10% by the end of the 2025-2026 school year. The plan involves monthly committee meetings, data analysis, and tiered support implementation, with professional development for staff and community engagement to achieve these objectives.